Re: Bandwidth/Email Problems

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "aashram" <groups@a...> wrote:
> I am using exchange server 2000 on a pentium III I am finding
> that when sending some email with attachments ef doc and pdf
> they receiver is getting it corrupted so cannot open it. Could
> this be a bandwidth problem could other pcs in my lan be taking
> up too much bandwidth so causing the server to send
> corrupted attachments. I dont know what to try. I use
> Bittorrent on one machine could that be the problem ?

I'm assuming you mean sending to folks across the internet, using
SMTP.  SMTP is a TCP protocol, so it has error checking and retrying
("guaranteed delivery", in the parlance), and packet level
checksums.  So I cant see that bandwidth availability is your
problem.  It'll all just slow down, but it wont corrupt.

A bit of thought suggests that lack of 8 bit cleanliness through the
mail path may be the issue.  (note that 8 bit clean paths are not
required, and could be considered rare)

Since I know relatively little about MS mail products, a bit of
googling gave this advice (and what you want are settings with words
like printable or 7 bit)

> You might have the sender check his settings in Outlook Express
> at Tools, Options, Send, Mail. HTML (or Plain Text) Settings.
> He probably wants MIME and text encoding using Quoted-Printable.
>
> In OE5+ he should generally use "Western European (ISO)"
> for Encoding.  Places to check this:
> - Tools, Options, Send, International
> - Tools, Options, Read, Font
> - Tools, Options, Read, International
> - When composing a message, look in Format, Encoding